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Atheros Communications (NASDAQ: ATHR) is a developer of semiconductors for wireless communications. Founded in 1998 by experts in signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the private industry, it became a public company in 2004. The current President and CEO of the company is Craig H. Barratt. A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by a relatively few individuals. ...
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A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. ...
Wireless is an old-fashioned term for a radio transceiver (a mixed receiver and transmitter device), referring to its use in wireless telegraphy early on, or for a radio receiver. ...
Signal processing is the processing, amplification and interpretation of signals and deals with the analysis and manipulation of signals. ...
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The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...
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A chief executive officer (CEO), or chief executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, or agency. ...
Atheros chipsets for the IEEE 802.11 standard of wireless networking are used by over 30 different wireless device manufacturers, including Netgear, D-Link and Linksys. [1] IEEE 802. ...
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D-Link Corporation is a Taiwanese company that manufactures wireless and Ethernet computer networking products for both consumer and SOHO users. ...
Linksys is a networking company founded in 1988. ...
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In the open-source community, Atheros is known for not releasing appropriate documentation that would allow free software developers to write open source drivers to support their wireless devices without reverse-engineering[2], thus OSS support for Atheros hardware is rather limited. Although documentation is not available, there are still some completely free open-source drivers written via reverse-engineering techniques, for example, Reyk Floeter of the OpenBSD project has reversed-engineered the HAL-module of the driver, and provided a completely free driver to Atheros devices. This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...
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OpenBSD is a freely available Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix derivative created at the University of California, Berkeley. ...
A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is an abstraction layer between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer. ...
Atheros is often featured in OpenBSD's themed songs that relate to the ongoing efforts of freeing non-free devices. [3]
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